A deviation or difference. / A specific variation of something. / A collection or number of different things.

plural of variety.

(idiomatic) Ordinary, common, or unexceptional.

(US) A shop where many small and inexpensive items can be bought.

Alternative spelling of garden variety

(algebraic geometry) The set of solutions of a given system of polynomial equations over the real or complex numbers; any of certain generalisations of such a set that preserves the geometric intuition implicit in the original definition.

(algebraic geometry) A Zariski closed subvariety of a projective space; the zero-locus of a set of homogeneous polynomials that generates a prime ideal.

(sociolinguistics) Synonym of standard language

(algebraic geometry) A set of points (in n-dimensional space) which satisfy a set of equations which have a polynomial of n variables on one side and a zero on the other side.

plural of variety meat